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KT Tunstall
Solo artist Edinburgh United Kingdom
KT Tunstall is an artist from Edinburgh. KT Tunstall has 56 chart appearances on 37 radio countdowns from 16 stations on RockLists, spanning 2005–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Suddenly I See”, which appears on 16 lists with a best position of #127. The station that charted KT Tunstall most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 19 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.
KT Tunstall, born in 1975 and raised in Scotland, got her big break the way every singer-songwriter dreams of: alone on Later... with Jools Holland in 2004, playing "Black Horse & the Cherry Tree" with nothing but her own nerve to hide behind. That song went on to win the Q Award for Best Track.
Her debut album, Eye to the Telescope, came out the same year, named after the childhood days she spent in her father's physics lab at the University of St Andrews. It sold more than five million copies internationally. "Suddenly I See" was the other monster: a bright, strummy rush of a song that won the Ivor Novello for Best Song, turned up in The Devil Wears Prada and was picked up by Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign. In 2006 the BRITs named her Best British Female Artist.
She hasn't stood still since. Drastic Fantastic, Tiger Suit and Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon followed, the title track of the last one bringing her back to the countdowns in 2013, and then came a trilogy of albums, Kin, Wax and Nut, and a record made with Suzi Quatro in 2023.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by KT Tunstall on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suddenly I See | 16 | #127 | – | – | |
| 2 | Black Horse & the Cherry Tree | 13 | #92 | – | – | |
| 3 | Fade Like A Shadow | 8 | #22 | – | 2010 | |
| 4 | The River | 4 | #42 | – | 2018 | |
| 5 | Human Being | 2 | #449 | – | – | |
| 6 | Saving My Face | 2 | #50 | – | 2008 | |
| 7 | Hold On | 3 | #66 | – | 2007 | |
| 8 | Private Eyes | 1 | #21 | – | 2022 | |
| 9 | Little Favours | 3 | #63 | – | 2008 | |
| 10 | Invisible Empire | 2 | #72 | – | 2013 | |
| 11 | Another Place To Fall | 1 | #725 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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